MARCH 12, 2023
Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Sunday inaugurated the Bengaluru-Mysuru expressway at a public rally in the Mandya district of Karnataka.
The 118 Km long project has been developed at a total cost of around Rs 8480 crores. It will reduce the travel time between Bengaluru and Mysuru from around 3 hours to about 75 minutes. It will act...
MARCH 11, 2023
Celebrity chef and MasterChef India judge Vikas Khanna, famous for his cooking skills, was recently impressed by the beauty of the Air India aircraft's cabin. Adding to it, the service provided by the crew members of the airline added to the goodwill towards the master chef. He shared the update appreciating the airline via his official Twitter handle. The...
MARCH 10, 2023
Reliance Consumer Products, a company owned by Mukesh Ambani's Reliance Retail Ventures, has announced the launch of India's iconic soft-drink brand, Campa Cola. The company's first offerings will be Campa Cola, Campa Lemon and Campa Orange. These soft drinks will directly compete with the products of global giants Coca-Cola and Pepsico. RCPL said in a statement that...
MARCH 10, 2023
India registered two deaths due to H3N2 influenza, official government sources told News18. They stated that Karnataka recorded one death and Haryana the second.
The country so far has reported a total of 90 cases of H3N2 influenza, and eight cases of H1N1. Sources said that India currently has detected these two types of influenza virus circulating in...
MARCH 9, 2023
FILE PHOTO: U.S. President Biden attends DNC rally in Rockville, Maryland
WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. President Joe Biden will travel to the swing-state of Pennsylvania on Thursday to unveil a federal budget plan laden with spending proposals and higher taxes on the wealthy that will form a blueprint for his expected 2024 re-election bid.
Biden's proposal, which resurrects many...
MARCH 9, 2023
Major retailers have been spending a lot of money to try get workers to stay, but it might not be enough. Getty / Tim Boyle
US workers are quitting their jobs less frequently than last year, but retail quits are trending up.
The increase is surprising in part because major retailers are spending big money to keep...
MARCH 3, 2023
US Presidential administrations have issued cybersecurity strategies for two decades, but President Biden’s differs from previous versions in several respects.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — The Biden administration plans to issue a cybersecurity strategy on Thursday that calls on software makers and American industry to take far greater responsibility to assure that their systems cannot be hacked, while accelerating efforts...
FEBRUARY 28, 2023
Buildings damaged by a Russian military strike in the frontline city of Bakhmut, on Monday. - Alex Babenko/Reuters
President Volodymyr Zelensky of Ukraine has issued a stark warning about the battle for the eastern city of Bakhmut, saying in an overnight speech that Russian forces were shattering anything that could be used to shield Ukrainian defenders from Moscow’s...
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
CHENNAI: TVS Capital Funds has bagged the BFSI Investor of the Year Apex Award at the annual PE-VC Summit of Venture Intelligence. The award is instituted by research firm Venture Intelligence.
TVS Capital Funds is a growth private equity fund and has invested in more than 35 companies across its three funds. The firm is investing currently from...
FEBRUARY 20, 2023
New research has cast a harsh spotlight on digital discrimination stemming from the Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) use of algorithms and artificial intelligence — a key factor in disproportionate auditing of poor families and taxpayers of color. Earlier this week, the Senate questioned President Biden’s nominee for IRS commissioner, Danny Werfel, about how an IRS algorithm targeted...
